Curious Minds
Jun. 2nd, 2010 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wickedwordsWow, it has been awhile since I've been on. I need to swap out the chemo icons with the winter hats on them to the regular ones. I should also probably change my layouts, as I think I'm still using ones from around Christmas.
Since I got the Kindle, I have read a lot more standard fiction than normal. I worked my way through the Anne Bishop Black Jewels stories so I'm all caught up there, and finished the Hunger Games as well. Speaking of the Black Jewels stories, it's clear that my love of the character with the inferiority complex is high. I loved Marion's story (she's the hedge witch who marries Sadi's brother) in the short story collection, and the most recent book, Shalimar's Lady, was pretty good too. I think she was on drugs when she wrote the haunted house story, though, as that one was clearly a fan fiction novel that somehow ended up being written by the series creator: focused on Minor Characters, set in something more akin to our world than her established one, with occasional cameos by the main series characters. I just...don't know how to describe why it felt more like fan fiction than a pro stories, but it really, *really* did.
Has there been any profic you've read lately that felt more like fan fiction than you expected it to?
Since I got the Kindle, I have read a lot more standard fiction than normal. I worked my way through the Anne Bishop Black Jewels stories so I'm all caught up there, and finished the Hunger Games as well. Speaking of the Black Jewels stories, it's clear that my love of the character with the inferiority complex is high. I loved Marion's story (she's the hedge witch who marries Sadi's brother) in the short story collection, and the most recent book, Shalimar's Lady, was pretty good too. I think she was on drugs when she wrote the haunted house story, though, as that one was clearly a fan fiction novel that somehow ended up being written by the series creator: focused on Minor Characters, set in something more akin to our world than her established one, with occasional cameos by the main series characters. I just...don't know how to describe why it felt more like fan fiction than a pro stories, but it really, *really* did.
Has there been any profic you've read lately that felt more like fan fiction than you expected it to?
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Date: 2010-06-03 05:55 am (UTC)On another note, want to do lunch or dinner next week sometime?
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Date: 2010-06-04 04:37 am (UTC)I've only read a couple of Tanya Huff's stories. Sounds like I should look at a couple more.